Spare Tire Covers & Carriers

We have installed Corbeau seats and harnesses to make room for body movement. We did a fantastic job in controlling side-to-side rocking movements of any cargo that is bound to happen on the road. Taking car of our driver’s comfort, the next task is to pursue getting a 37-inch spare tire from off the mount. Most people don’t carry spares, but we dare not be this person. Many of our Jeep excursions break us away to far-out places where the round-trip is very long to restore a tire that’s been destroyed. Our tire and wheel combination typically weighs over 150 pounds. This is beyond what our driver’s back can endure while struggling to pick up a tire on and off of the mount. Imploring these choices amongst our colleagues, we bring up the idea of using a small electric winch as a hoist. This would require a tire carrier that can handle the weight very well, but was installed in a way we can adjust it to hold a winch above the tire. Examining around the accessible tire carrier choices, we decided a workable option is a cage-style mount.

PartsAvatar has in stock all high quality spare tire carriers you will easily find at our online and onsite auto shops all over Canada:Smittybiltm1 tire carrier, smittybiltsrc black rear swing away tire carrier, body armor swing arm tire carrier, hanson off-road spare tire carrier l-brackets, rugged ridge off-road jack mount space kit, smittybiltxrc slant black tire mount, evo manufacturing raw rear tire carrier armor mounted and black mounted heavy-duty black spare tire carrier.We propose that a single mounting bolt through the wheel center hole would be an even better method to swing a tire than doing some multiple lugs. We provide a Warn V2000 winch that is designed for using on side-by-side or all-terrain cars, and with a 2000-pound capacity, it builds up enough bravery to life our 150-pound spare tire and wheel combo. The strategy is creating a mount for the winch that can endure the load of the tire and winch, but not is too large or heavy. Simple tubing welded to the rear hoop of the carrier that has a flat plate to mount on the winch, appears to be strong enough, in the moment, only adding a slight weight to the Gen Right tire carrier. Gen Right Off-road can assist in installing the carrier. Having all the mounting-hold locations just right and ensuring that everything is correctly in alignment is not complicated, but having this experience of installing these carriers under your belt does come in handy. A well-designed tire carrier that is able to lift up to a 42-inch tire is thick enough to handle our 37-inch Kanati Mudhogs. Drilling the holes and eliminating the hinge pin from the industrial hinges is the most challenging part of the installment. The Gen Right design uses a semi section of the factory tailgate hinge, so you need to eliminate the pin. After grounding off the head of the pin, using a hammer we punch to knock out all the rest of it. The Gen Right carrier mount bracket replaced the body-side half of the factory hinges.

The real fun begins; we make up a mount for our Warn V2000 ATV and weld it in place. We set up the winch a few inches in height, so we should provide space if we ultimately get up to a 40-inch tire. While hacking away at it, we also get very creative with a license plate kit from GenRight. After doing the painting job, the tire carrier comes on so we can start wiring it together. Aside the winch, we applied a fast disconnect jumper cable plug, two white KC HiLiTES Cyclone LED lights as rock lights, also three red Cyclones as a third brake light. We always consider soldering the wire connections; off-road cars are high-vibration environments and “out of nowhere” are not a place to have a wire coming loose. To keep it simple, we mounted the switch just next to the winch. The switch is supposed to on the handlebars of an all-terrain-car, so it is compatible as ever. When calculating the measure in security, we wire the relay activation wire to our rock lights. Thereby, the winch cannot be used unless turning on the rock lights. Our brainstorming comes into realization. We still need to pull away the tire from the mount, but this involves no lifting. How easily the tire carrier swings is something we did not take account of. A short chain is then applied to keep the carrier open when we are hoisting the tire. Very nifty stat of the art spare tire carrier accessories you can find on PartsAvatar’s website and at our auto part stores across Canada.